1493

This article is about the year 1493. For the history book by Charles C. Mann, see 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century · 15th century · 16th century
Decades:	1460s · 1470s · 1480s · 1490s · 1500s · 1510s · 1520s
Years:	1490 · 1491 · 1492 · 1493 · 1494 · 1495 · 1496

1493 by topic
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1493 in poetry

1493 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1493 MCDXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2246
Armenian calendar	942 ԹՎ ՋԽԲ
Assyrian calendar	6243
Bengali calendar	900
Berber calendar	2443
English Regnal year	8 Hen. 7 – 9 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2037
Burmese calendar	855
Byzantine calendar	7001–7002
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 4189 or 4129 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4190 or 4130
Coptic calendar	1209–1210
Discordian calendar	2659
Ethiopian calendar	1485–1486
Hebrew calendar	5253–5254
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1549–1550
- Shaka Samvat	1414–1415
- Kali Yuga	4593–4594
Holocene calendar	11493
Igbo calendar	493–494
Iranian calendar	871–872
Islamic calendar	898–899
Japanese calendar	Meiō 2 (明応２年)
Javanese calendar	1410–1411
Julian calendar	1493 MCDXCIII
Korean calendar	3826
Minguo calendar	419 before ROC 民前419年
Nanakshahi calendar	25
Thai solar calendar	2035–2036

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Year 1493 (MCDXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).

Events

January–December

January 19 – Treaty of Barcelona: Charles VIII of France returns Cerdagne and Roussillon to Ferdinand of Aragon.
March 1 – Martín Alonso Pinzón returns to city of Bayona in Spain from the voyage of discovery, sending the first notice about the discovery to the Catholic Monarchs. Christopher Columbus was delayed by a storm in Azores
March 15 – Christopher Columbus and Martín Alonso Pinzón return to Palos de la Frontera the original port in Spain from where they started the first voyage of discovery.
May 4 – In the papal bull Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI decrees that all lands discovered 100 leagues or further west of the Azores are Spanish.
August 19 – Maximilian I succeeds his father, Frederick III, as Holy Roman Emperor.
September 9 – Battle of Krbava Field in southern Croatia: Forces of the Ottoman Empire defeat those of the Kingdom of Croatia.
September 26 – Pope Alexander VI issues the bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of newly discovered lands he made them in Inter caetera
September 29 – Christopher Columbus leaves Cádiz on his second voyage of exploration.
November 19 – Christopher Columbus lands on the coast of the island of Borinquen, which he renames San Juan (modern-day Puerto Rico).

Unknown date

England imposes sanctions on Burgundy for supporting Perkin Warbeck, the pretender to the English throne.^[1]

Births

January 2 – Louis de Bourbon de Vendôme, French cardinal (d. 1557)
January 6 – Olaus Petri, clergyman (d. 1552)
January 9 – Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Viceroy of Valencia, German noble (d. 1525)
January 25 – Maximilian Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1530)
January 26
- Min Bin (d. 1554)
- Giovanni Poggio, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1556)
- Ippolita Maria Sforza, Italian noble (d. 1501)
February 9 – Helen of the Palatinate, Duchess of Pomerania (d. 1524)
March 15 – Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567)
April 11 – George I, Duke of Pomerania from the House of Griffins (d. 1531)
April 25 – Giovanni Gaddi, Italian priest (d. 1542)
May 5 – Alessandro Pasqualini, Italian architect (d. 1559)
May 6 – Girolamo Seripando, Catholic cardinal (d. 1563)
June 5 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
June 10 – Anton Fugger, German merchant (d. 1560)
September 28 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and litterateur (d. 1543)
September 29 – Yi Gwang-sik, Korean politician and general (d. 1563)
October 14 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
October 17 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Renaissance Italian sculptor (d. 1560)
November 11 – Bernardo Tasso (d. 1569)
November 11 or December 17 – Paracelsus, born Philippus von Hohenheim, Swiss physician and scientist (d. 1541)
November 17 – John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (d. 1543)
November 25 – Osanna of Cattaro, Dominican visionary and anchoress (d. 1565)
December 9 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado (d. 1566)
December 25 – Antoinette de Bourbon, French noblewoman (d. 1583)
December 27 – Johann Pfeffinger, German theologian (d. 1573)
December 31 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, Italian artists' model (d. 1570)
date unknown
- Jobst II, Count of Hoya (d. 1545)
- Simon Grynaeus, German scholar and theologian (d. 1541)
- Takeda Nobutora, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
- Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (d. 1580)
probable
- Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1560)
- Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (d. 1546)

Deaths

May – Pietro Antonio Solari, Italian architect (b. 1450)
May 10 – Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. c. 1433)
June 14 – Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar (b. 1454)
August 19 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
September 9 – Mirko Derenčin, Croatian leader
October 22 – James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
November 6 – Andrey Bolshoy, Russian prince (b. 1446)
date unknown
- James Blount, English soldier
- Martín Alonso Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer (b. c. 1441)
- Tupac Inca Yupanqui, Inca ruler of Tahuantinsuyu

References

↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

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